Thread: running compiled program in Emacs

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    running compiled program in Emacs

    Hi there,

    I don't know if this is in the right place, but as emacs seems to be associated to Unix and Linux, I thought I'd give it a shot.

    Can anyone tell me how to run a file from emacs, is there a run command at all?

    it would be nice as I am learning with little snippets of code to just get it to run in a terminal window started from emacs.

    Any input is always greatly received.

    Kind regards

    Jonny

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    I don't use emacs, but if you are on linux, here's a tip about this kind of thing.

    Set your DE or window manager to use a hotkey to background a window, eg, ctrl-backspace.
    On the same desktop, open your editor and a terminal cd'd to the directory the editor writes to. Foreground the editor.
    Write your snippet, save it. Background the editor window. You're now looking at the terminal. Type "gcc whatever" and "./a.out".
    All you need to do now is flip back and forth with the hotkey. You don't have to keep re-typing gcc etc, just use the up-down arrow keys to access bash's command line history. This may be nicer than outputting into emacs or using a temporary pop-up terminal, because you can also scroll back to see previous runs.

    Most editors and terminal emulators allow tabbing, so you can work on multiple files output into different directories by adding new tabs to the terminal window, and each one has it's own command history, so you can have, eg, different commands in play for different languages or whatever. I do a lot of web-dev and often need to work in 2-3 languages simultaneously, with files in various places, some of them involve console output, plus doing little "premise tests", and of course distracting myself with C stuff from here. Works great.
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    Thanks for your replies chaps, actually, I have been doing just that, though I am running emacs on a mac (I've gone off Xcode as it wouldn't run one of my programs that when i posted the code on a forum, everyone said was perfectly well written code.) and as a result it likes to open up in the terminal window anyway, I am just trying to learn emacs without all the arduous reading. The emacs manual is not what you would call "dyslexic friendly" so to speak.

    Kind regards

    Jonny

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    Just keep a shell buffer open in emacs. You can compile and run from there without leaving emacs. And you can close your xterm
    Code:
    //try
    //{
    	if (a) do { f( b); } while(1);
    	else   do { f(!b); } while(1);
    //}

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